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The heroic firefighter left a heartfelt message on social media describing the inferno and thanking his brave colleagues.

He posted on Facebook: "Thank you for the kind messages I received from a few people, I've been in a few quite horrendous jobs but this was by far the worst,

"All of us in there gave our all and went above and beyond what we should have but still could not reach so so many, some were saved but so many more were not, our ladders don't go that high, our water doesn't reach that far,

"Humans can't push through inferno temperatures into the thousands (although many tried) we can't breath smoke although we did all night, but still watched families die, all of our thoughts are with those we couldn't reach in time, as well as those we did.

"And I would like to thank and condone everyone on the job but especially all the crews I worked with that pushed themselves to the absolute limit and then went beyond, the boys and girl from f33 & f24 and many more."